They have no individual personality whatsoever.Ĭompare that to the rich women at Springfield Glen Country Club. They just show up on screen like some kind of inseparable three headed creature with one collective mind. We don’t know what they do, we never see only one of them interact with Marge (or anyone else). We never see the Anitas do anything other than gab with Marge. Not so with the three women whose interactions with Marge were ostensibly the central plot. It wasn’t much, but you could get a slight feel for who they were supposed to be. The fifth grade kid introduced the episode, and the sandy haired husband rode Homer’s case far more than the other two. None of the husbands or the kids had names either, but they weren’t the focus of what was supposed to be the main story, and they did get at least some individual attention. Maybe they’re all named Anita.įrom left to right: Marge, Anita?, Anita?, Anita?. Oh sure, Marge mentions “Anita’s family” when talking to Homer, but we have no idea which one is Anita the name is never used when any of them are actually on screen. I was thinking about this during one of the many scenes where Marge and the three other moms sit and exposit at each other, and it dawned on me that of the four of them, only Marge actually had a name. There are a few variations, but the basic concept is that there needs to be at least one conversation between two named, female characters that isn’t about a male. In film criticism there is a concept known as the “ Bechdel Test”, which is a kind of quick and dirty measurement of whether or not a movie has any female characters that rise above the level of tokenism or decoration.
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